TY - BOOK AU - Ford,Clementine TI - How we love: notes on a life SN - 9781760877187 U1 - 305.420994092 23/eng/20211029 PY - 2021/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Ford, Clementine. KW - Feminism KW - Australia KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Anecdotes KW - Love KW - Love, Paternal KW - Feminists KW - fast KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Lesbians KW - Biography KW - Conduct of life KW - Self-acceptance KW - Motherhood KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographies N2 - There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now, and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of. Tell me a story, he asked me. And so I began. Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and the multiple ways it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery. This memoir explores love in its many forms through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love ER -